I've never been hit by a $800 data bill. See, I made sure to be smart and when I planned on using data, I went with a network that allowed for unlimited. Sorry for your loss, but in this day and age, you are not restricted to one carrier, so you should have switched.
Oh know, it is the one that sings the California Girls song, well, at least that is the picture she says she is on her profile. I mean, it is the internet, and I normally believe everything that is said on the internet
I knew it. We are getting married. On a mountain. And there will be flutes playing and garlands made of fresh herb. Then we will start a family band and tour the country.
I think you misunderstood what is happening. It would be like if I bought up a bunch of new cars, installed a bunch of after market parts, and then sold them as new. Or if I was selling a bunch of softmodded consoles in bulk.
I am sorry, but I find that offensive since that is my mother's "special nickname" at her job as a dancer. She still refuses to tell me what kind of dancing she does, which is odd
MTV.com does this already, but you have to wait 30 seconds, and there is no rhyme or reason to which ones will be skipped. I have skipped one, and then it played another commercial right after it. I call shenanigans on the person that coded that stuff, but I am only showing an example that waiting 5 seconds is not bad if you watch YouTube. For somebody like me who needs to stop watching Nitro Circus, Viva La Bam and Rob and Big, the skip function would be nice if it was like what Youtube is going to implement
Boycotts are very effective. By downloading the music, you are showing the companies that you still want to listen to the music, which means for more popular people, expect to pay $100+ for concert tickets.
Also, I am pretty confident some of you guys are not reading the stuff before it as alot of this are replies from above stuff.
Like boycotting music. I mentioned that because the person above me said that he downloads to protest against the industry.
Also, I am pretty confident that if you got together with a few people and cut your feet off to protest a shoe company, something would happen. Boycotting the music industry means you just do nothing. You are not cutting off your feet, which is a little of a poor example, but whatever.
Whether they change or not does not matter. What matters is that you hold your ground. Or, you can download the music illegally and let the industry know who they should start bumping concert ticket prices up on. Don't worry, if you don't go to concerts, others will.
Petitioning out representatives would not work. What would you tell them, "Can you talk to Sony and ask them to lower their prices on CDs?"
Class action lawsuit, maybe. What ground would you sue them based off of when you are piratting in the beginning? Tell them to lower their prices so that you can stop piratting. You will get a nice counter-suit thrown in your face.
No matter how you look at it. No matter what excuse you use, you know it is illegal. You can say you are doing it to protest or because of the high prices and, quite possibly the worst one I have ever heard, because everybody else is doing it. The funny thing is that there is one excuse which is bad, but plausable which is about this case. The bad thing is that if you look through after my first post on this and see the other excuses, some of them are much, much worse.
Seriously/. go'ers, you know what you are doing. Maybe you are correct and this kid was oblivious to it, but you guys are not. If you are on/. you know what you are doing and you know the penalties very well.
What are you going to do if you get caught? Use as your defense in the case that you were protesting and that you deserve that right as an American? Do you really think that will fly in court? Oh, what about this one: Everybody else is doing it, so since so many people are doing it, it can't be wrong. Really? Come on now/. You guys are smarter than that. You are on/. so the bandwagon excuse will not fly on this site.
If I get busted, too bad for me. That is life. I know good and well what I am doing.
The reason why I personally do it, it is cheap and easy. That is it. I am not making excuses and know full and well what I am doing, but then again, I have been doing it since long before things like LimeWire came out.
Pretty much every major website will do this to you (IGN, MTV, CNN, Hulu). I hates ads with a passion. The worst is one time I wanted to catch an episode of Viva La Bam on MTV.com (say what you want, the episode was funny), and I seriously had to watch the same Latisse eyelash commercial 4 times in a row and the commericial lasts about 45 seconds. After that, it went to another commercial and gave me the option to skip it. Or when I go to Cinnemasacre, I have to watch that stupid commercial before every single video for Mobile PC or whatever it is called. I think in order to attract people that frequent sites, if they switched commercials more instead of showing the same one over and over, I could possibly have interest, but when you force me to sit there and watch the same commercial 4 times in a row, or the same one at the beginning of every video, I just get annoyed.
Uh, I posted earlier than I pirate and I admit it. My points are basically that you can make any excuse you want about what you are doing, but you are still breaking the law. It is also safe to say that the majority of people also speed in their cars, which means since everybody does it, every street should be like the AutoBahn.
The bandwagon excuse is not a good one. Me, personally, I pirate, but I have slowed down in doing so. I have now gotten into using things like grooveshark and stuff to listen to an album before I buy it.
If you choose to protest against the music industry by not buying music, go one step further and not download music illegally. I am going to go protest speed laws by speeding?!? Come on now.
The points are very clear. As long as you pirate, it does not matter what excuse you use for it, things like COICA will get put into place and then I have to hear you complain about that as well when you are the one throwing out the classic pirating excuses.
If you truly want to protest, no downloading illegally, no purchasing. This will show the music industry that as long as they continue doing what they do, you will have no interest in their music at all. That would be far more powerful than saying you are protesting by piratting.
Also, there are millions of Justin Bieber fans, but that does not mean they are correct in the assumption that his music is good. Which means I will not listen to the crowd. Plus, I love punk rock anyway, so the "I fight the institution by paying attention to it" excuse will not fly with me.
It is just an excuse for you to think you are entitled to illegally pirate.
Either protest like a man or stop using it as an excuse for pirating.
Maybe 90+% of the population should not be engaging in an illegal activity. I agree that the penatly is bad. It is really bad, but when we know we are doing something highly illegal, and then we get busted, we get all up in arms when the penalty comes through. Let's face it, pirating is a much bigger offense than shoplifting.
Example: I am a computer programmer (I truly am outside of this example). If I get busted for piracy and that shows up on my record somehow, then it basically means I can't get a job as a programmer (or have a very tough time doing it). Now if they look up my record and see shoplifting, I would still have a job, but they just would not tell me where the extra stock of pens is kept.
The point is that piracy, even if it seems small, is a much harsher crime than shoplifting.
Using the "everybody does it" bandwagon approach is not the best one. In my line of work, seriously, I do programming and help out drug addicts. I see them and talk to them daily, and it is safe to say that I spend more time with addicts then other people in my day to day life. Using the bandwagon approach, there is nothing wrong with me doing drugs.
Also, anybody who looks at porn of girls who are 18 or 19 and they are much older than that and do not clear their cache, well, you are not going to see that.
As for very few perpetrators, that is because the ones that get caught are getting hit hard. They are trying to go after the big fish with stuff like COICA. I can't stand COICA, but there are so many people piratting to where they will try a few of us to make examples of us, and then when we fight it when we are clearly guilty, they get mad and put stuff in like COICA.
I guess it is time to get my weekly -1 since some of this stuff I have a different opinion than others:
She knew exactly what she was doing. That would be like me shoplifting from a store that did not have a
Shoplifters will be prosecuted sign" and claiming that I did not know I could not shoplift.
Look. I pirate and many others on/. do as well. Everybody knows it is illegal and there is a chance of getting caught. I am just glad I am not the one getting caught, and I would be in trouble for much more than 37 songs.
If you do something illegal and get caught, even if we think the penalty is horrible, the excuses some people use are ridiculous. If she was so naive to think that there was nothing illegal about downloading the music and not paying for it, then how in the hell did she figure out how to do it in the first place. I am trying to say that every single person that pirates knows it is illegal. Well, most people do. If you show grandma how to download Elvis songs, it is possible she could have no idea, but those cases are so far and few between, that I would put them in to 1% of all pirates in a study I made up myself to help out my argument.
If you are going to download music, there is always a chance of getting caught. This excuse is a horrible excuse as well
I have the same first and last name of a rockstar by coincidence, so I always have cool stuff going on when I google my name. It would be very cool if they started using my picture as well
The guy goes in and talks about how it is bad that Google dumped offline support. So......an internet company that was founded and ran off of the net makes you use the net for support. Who uses anything by Google and is not online? Who uses Google's enterprise solutions and is not online? Yes, Google takes my data. I am well aware of that. I have small websites that I have built that will take your data if you on onto them. Like Google, I do not sell my information that I have gathered.
I do know that Microsoft has Azure, but that is all I know about it outside of knowing it exists. I honestly know more about Amazon's could space than Microsoft's. I am no expert and probably not the best and most reliable source of information. I am just a straight up web developer. If a normal web developer like myself has not heard of the Microsoft solutions outside of the name itself but has heard alot about the competition, then I would see that as them being behind the rest of the market since us normal web developers have not heard much about it.
Uh, I would not be too worried about that if the skimmer was just there installing it. I am pretty sure that if a skimmer is caught on tape doing it, they will see you removing it. If they are not going to stop some dude from installing a skimmer on an atm, i highly doubt they will care if you give the machine a few small hits from a ballpeen hammer
The summary asked a question: "The question is, is that even worth the bother? Or is it better to bolt a mount into the car for an iPad or a Galaxy tablet and call it good?" I thought the answer would be waiting for me, and searched that webpage for a page two or something, but there was not one. I will admit it is a very cool concept, but the article just does not seem to give enough information. It basically says, "Hey, this would be a cool car pc" and then leaves it at that. It gives links at the bottom of the page, but that is it. I guess this article is very confusing to me because it acts like it wants to give you some really good, detailed instructions on doing it (plus when the summary talks about all of the stuff you can put into one, everything just seems like the person will build one), and nothing is built. Did the person that do this make a car pc and was really excited about it and want to share his specs on it or something? I guess I am not seeing a point at all to this article. It shows nothing of interest outside of giving you ideas.
This is not flaming or trolling, as if there is an article out there that gets posted can do it, I feel I should be able to do it through a comment: A fully automated, wireless house/apartment. I personally thought it was a cool idea to control absolutely everything in your house through a remote control (including turning on the shower to a temp you want and stuff). I personally know how to do most of this stuff. Do you want to know how to do it? Yeah, I'm sure you do, let me give you some links instead.
You see what I mean. I was amped up to find out what the dude did to make it happen, and was left with links to click on instead
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I've never been hit by a $800 data bill. See, I made sure to be smart and when I planned on using data, I went with a network that allowed for unlimited. Sorry for your loss, but in this day and age, you are not restricted to one carrier, so you should have switched.
Why does this sound like some straight out of the movie Trading Places?
...1 dollar"
"Here you go...
Oh know, it is the one that sings the California Girls song, well, at least that is the picture she says she is on her profile. I mean, it is the internet, and I normally believe everything that is said on the internet
I knew it. We are getting married. On a mountain. And there will be flutes playing and garlands made of fresh herb. Then we will start a family band and tour the country.
So Kati Perry really does not love me? I need a moment alone.
Nice, the Nasa stream is totally not working. Unfortunately, Yahoo is blocked on my work's firewall.
So you are saying we are the hicks of the galaxy living out in the boonies? Yeah, that is probably pretty accurate
I think you misunderstood what is happening. It would be like if I bought up a bunch of new cars, installed a bunch of after market parts, and then sold them as new. Or if I was selling a bunch of softmodded consoles in bulk.
I am sorry, but I find that offensive since that is my mother's "special nickname" at her job as a dancer. She still refuses to tell me what kind of dancing she does, which is odd
MTV.com does this already, but you have to wait 30 seconds, and there is no rhyme or reason to which ones will be skipped. I have skipped one, and then it played another commercial right after it. I call shenanigans on the person that coded that stuff, but I am only showing an example that waiting 5 seconds is not bad if you watch YouTube. For somebody like me who needs to stop watching Nitro Circus, Viva La Bam and Rob and Big, the skip function would be nice if it was like what Youtube is going to implement
Boycotts are very effective. By downloading the music, you are showing the companies that you still want to listen to the music, which means for more popular people, expect to pay $100+ for concert tickets.
/. go'ers, you know what you are doing. Maybe you are correct and this kid was oblivious to it, but you guys are not. If you are on /. you know what you are doing and you know the penalties very well.
/. You guys are smarter than that. You are on /. so the bandwagon excuse will not fly on this site.
Also, I am pretty confident some of you guys are not reading the stuff before it as alot of this are replies from above stuff.
Like boycotting music. I mentioned that because the person above me said that he downloads to protest against the industry.
Also, I am pretty confident that if you got together with a few people and cut your feet off to protest a shoe company, something would happen. Boycotting the music industry means you just do nothing. You are not cutting off your feet, which is a little of a poor example, but whatever.
Whether they change or not does not matter. What matters is that you hold your ground. Or, you can download the music illegally and let the industry know who they should start bumping concert ticket prices up on. Don't worry, if you don't go to concerts, others will.
Petitioning out representatives would not work. What would you tell them, "Can you talk to Sony and ask them to lower their prices on CDs?"
Class action lawsuit, maybe. What ground would you sue them based off of when you are piratting in the beginning? Tell them to lower their prices so that you can stop piratting. You will get a nice counter-suit thrown in your face.
No matter how you look at it. No matter what excuse you use, you know it is illegal. You can say you are doing it to protest or because of the high prices and, quite possibly the worst one I have ever heard, because everybody else is doing it. The funny thing is that there is one excuse which is bad, but plausable which is about this case. The bad thing is that if you look through after my first post on this and see the other excuses, some of them are much, much worse.
Seriously
What are you going to do if you get caught? Use as your defense in the case that you were protesting and that you deserve that right as an American? Do you really think that will fly in court? Oh, what about this one: Everybody else is doing it, so since so many people are doing it, it can't be wrong. Really? Come on now
If I get busted, too bad for me. That is life. I know good and well what I am doing.
The reason why I personally do it, it is cheap and easy. That is it. I am not making excuses and know full and well what I am doing, but then again, I have been doing it since long before things like LimeWire came out.
Pretty much every major website will do this to you (IGN, MTV, CNN, Hulu). I hates ads with a passion. The worst is one time I wanted to catch an episode of Viva La Bam on MTV.com (say what you want, the episode was funny), and I seriously had to watch the same Latisse eyelash commercial 4 times in a row and the commericial lasts about 45 seconds. After that, it went to another commercial and gave me the option to skip it. Or when I go to Cinnemasacre, I have to watch that stupid commercial before every single video for Mobile PC or whatever it is called. I think in order to attract people that frequent sites, if they switched commercials more instead of showing the same one over and over, I could possibly have interest, but when you force me to sit there and watch the same commercial 4 times in a row, or the same one at the beginning of every video, I just get annoyed.
or a 360 game or something.
The particles will smell terrific
... like a moose
Uh, I posted earlier than I pirate and I admit it. My points are basically that you can make any excuse you want about what you are doing, but you are still breaking the law. It is also safe to say that the majority of people also speed in their cars, which means since everybody does it, every street should be like the AutoBahn.
The bandwagon excuse is not a good one. Me, personally, I pirate, but I have slowed down in doing so. I have now gotten into using things like grooveshark and stuff to listen to an album before I buy it.
If you choose to protest against the music industry by not buying music, go one step further and not download music illegally. I am going to go protest speed laws by speeding?!? Come on now.
The points are very clear. As long as you pirate, it does not matter what excuse you use for it, things like COICA will get put into place and then I have to hear you complain about that as well when you are the one throwing out the classic pirating excuses.
If you truly want to protest, no downloading illegally, no purchasing. This will show the music industry that as long as they continue doing what they do, you will have no interest in their music at all. That would be far more powerful than saying you are protesting by piratting.
Also, there are millions of Justin Bieber fans, but that does not mean they are correct in the assumption that his music is good. Which means I will not listen to the crowd. Plus, I love punk rock anyway, so the "I fight the institution by paying attention to it" excuse will not fly with me.
It is just an excuse for you to think you are entitled to illegally pirate.
Either protest like a man or stop using it as an excuse for pirating.
I got $5 for it.
Maybe 90+% of the population should not be engaging in an illegal activity. I agree that the penatly is bad. It is really bad, but when we know we are doing something highly illegal, and then we get busted, we get all up in arms when the penalty comes through. Let's face it, pirating is a much bigger offense than shoplifting.
Example: I am a computer programmer (I truly am outside of this example). If I get busted for piracy and that shows up on my record somehow, then it basically means I can't get a job as a programmer (or have a very tough time doing it). Now if they look up my record and see shoplifting, I would still have a job, but they just would not tell me where the extra stock of pens is kept.
The point is that piracy, even if it seems small, is a much harsher crime than shoplifting.
Using the "everybody does it" bandwagon approach is not the best one. In my line of work, seriously, I do programming and help out drug addicts. I see them and talk to them daily, and it is safe to say that I spend more time with addicts then other people in my day to day life. Using the bandwagon approach, there is nothing wrong with me doing drugs.
Also, anybody who looks at porn of girls who are 18 or 19 and they are much older than that and do not clear their cache, well, you are not going to see that.
As for very few perpetrators, that is because the ones that get caught are getting hit hard. They are trying to go after the big fish with stuff like COICA. I can't stand COICA, but there are so many people piratting to where they will try a few of us to make examples of us, and then when we fight it when we are clearly guilty, they get mad and put stuff in like COICA.
I guess it is time to get my weekly -1 since some of this stuff I have a different opinion than others:
/. do as well. Everybody knows it is illegal and there is a chance of getting caught. I am just glad I am not the one getting caught, and I would be in trouble for much more than 37 songs.
She knew exactly what she was doing. That would be like me shoplifting from a store that did not have a Shoplifters will be prosecuted sign" and claiming that I did not know I could not shoplift.
Look. I pirate and many others on
If you do something illegal and get caught, even if we think the penalty is horrible, the excuses some people use are ridiculous. If she was so naive to think that there was nothing illegal about downloading the music and not paying for it, then how in the hell did she figure out how to do it in the first place. I am trying to say that every single person that pirates knows it is illegal. Well, most people do. If you show grandma how to download Elvis songs, it is possible she could have no idea, but those cases are so far and few between, that I would put them in to 1% of all pirates in a study I made up myself to help out my argument.
If you are going to download music, there is always a chance of getting caught. This excuse is a horrible excuse as well
I have the same first and last name of a rockstar by coincidence, so I always have cool stuff going on when I google my name. It would be very cool if they started using my picture as well
The guy goes in and talks about how it is bad that Google dumped offline support. So... ...an internet company that was founded and ran off of the net makes you use the net for support. Who uses anything by Google and is not online? Who uses Google's enterprise solutions and is not online? Yes, Google takes my data. I am well aware of that. I have small websites that I have built that will take your data if you on onto them. Like Google, I do not sell my information that I have gathered.
I do know that Microsoft has Azure, but that is all I know about it outside of knowing it exists. I honestly know more about Amazon's could space than Microsoft's. I am no expert and probably not the best and most reliable source of information. I am just a straight up web developer. If a normal web developer like myself has not heard of the Microsoft solutions outside of the name itself but has heard alot about the competition, then I would see that as them being behind the rest of the market since us normal web developers have not heard much about it.
Well if you put it that way, that is an expensive piece of produce
Uh, I would not be too worried about that if the skimmer was just there installing it. I am pretty sure that if a skimmer is caught on tape doing it, they will see you removing it. If they are not going to stop some dude from installing a skimmer on an atm, i highly doubt they will care if you give the machine a few small hits from a ballpeen hammer
The summary asked a question: "The question is, is that even worth the bother? Or is it better to bolt a mount into the car for an iPad or a Galaxy tablet and call it good?" I thought the answer would be waiting for me, and searched that webpage for a page two or something, but there was not one. I will admit it is a very cool concept, but the article just does not seem to give enough information. It basically says, "Hey, this would be a cool car pc" and then leaves it at that. It gives links at the bottom of the page, but that is it. I guess this article is very confusing to me because it acts like it wants to give you some really good, detailed instructions on doing it (plus when the summary talks about all of the stuff you can put into one, everything just seems like the person will build one), and nothing is built. Did the person that do this make a car pc and was really excited about it and want to share his specs on it or something? I guess I am not seeing a point at all to this article. It shows nothing of interest outside of giving you ideas.
This is not flaming or trolling, as if there is an article out there that gets posted can do it, I feel I should be able to do it through a comment: A fully automated, wireless house/apartment. I personally thought it was a cool idea to control absolutely everything in your house through a remote control (including turning on the shower to a temp you want and stuff). I personally know how to do most of this stuff. Do you want to know how to do it? Yeah, I'm sure you do, let me give you some links instead.
You see what I mean. I was amped up to find out what the dude did to make it happen, and was left with links to click on instead
I have yet to figure that out